Midknight Review -- new and revised: She would have said "no." He decided she was just not THAT popular.

NY Times: President Obama’s top aides secretly considered replacing Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. with Hillary Rodham Clinton on the 2012 ticket, undertaking extensive focus-group sessions and polling in late 2011 when Mr. Obama’s re-election outlook appeared uncertain.

The aides concluded that despite Mrs. Clinton’s popularity, the move would not offer a significant enough political boost to Mr. Obama to justify such a radical move, according to a newly published account of the 2012 race.

Editor’s notes: Two things: First, the report does not mention that Hillary would not have accepted the nomination. There would have been NO upside to being Obama’s VP . . . . . . . none whatsoever. Imagine the downside for Obama, being turned down by Hillary!!

Secondly, Obama’s decision not to ask Hillary was supposedly based on his conclusion that she brought no more popularity to the Obama ticket than did Joe Biden. What does that foretell for Hillary's 2016 presidential bid?

The Stated Nonsense from the Left now includes these Progressive goals:

July 2, 2008, Obama had this to say: "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

MICHELLE OBAMA: "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."

“ . . . . . . they have become a generation of activists possessed with that most American of ideas – that people who love their country can change it.” -- Obama the Radical

On September 30, Van Jones told MSNBC "I think everybody should hold onto your seats. October is going to be the turning point when it comes to the progressive fight back."